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floyd

floyd

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I have been trying to figure out cloud hosting with multiple servers or VPSs connected together. A google search always brings up how to use other people's cloud hosting. Maybe I am not using the right keywords. Does anybody have a source of documentation on how to set up my own so that I can offer it?
 
I have search many hours. Like I said I didn't know the correct terms. Thank you.
 
High Availability is indeed one of the terms. However I think there is a big difference in what is considered cloud hosting.

There is a lot of shared hosting called cloud hosting, where it's just regular hosting on a VPS. The VPS itself may be high availability due to it's virtual infrastructure. (And of course there are VPSses without HA, and still considered cloud).

But you can also setup HA on OS level, replicating the website storage data and setting up a sql cluster.

In my view there are a lot of VPS providers that offer very little downtime and no data loss. If we go back 5-10 years and further I think hardware failure was a much bigger issue.
 
I think "cloud" has become a marketing term which makes it so hard to search for what I really want. What I was wanting and what I have heard of is having a VPS set up on one host machine and another set up on another host machine and they act as one.

I haven't had a hardware failure in probably 10 years so I don't know that its worth it. But if I say I offer cloud hosting I wanted to be honest about it and not just use a marketing term.
 
Cloud is not the only term that gets abused within the hosting industry.

If you're coming at this from a technical stand point, you're going to get lost. Marketing terminology has won out in the hosting world. It doesn't really matter if the terms you use have any technical meaning - if they sound fancy people flock to them.

Kind of like trying to explain to someone how their laptop with a 5400 RPM hard drive is slow, because the disk don't spin that fast and that newer SSD technology has no moving parts. It's easier to just say "Use SSD - computer go faster"
 
Isn't "Cloud" just a fancy term for someone else sever in someone else datacenter.
 
If you ask me - I think "cloud" gets it's name more from Cloud Storage - i.e. the ability to save a file into the Cloud - then you can access that file from any where with an Internet connection. Have a spreadsheet you need to access at home, at the office, on your phone? Save it to the Cloud where it's always there.

But in terms of hosting - and hosting website - these have always been in the cloud. That's just the nature of what a website is. The term "cloud hosting" just means doubly the same thing... "with cloud hosting you can access your website from any where!"

Then people just took the word cloud and butchered it to death, to where it can effectively mean anything now.
 
Here is one definition and what I was trying to figure out how to do.

Cloud Hosting is a type of web hosting which uses multiple different servers to balance the load and maximize uptime. Instead of using a single server, your website can tap into a “cluster” that uses resources from a centralized pool. This means that even if one server fails, another kicks in to keep everything running.

Visualize the cloud as a web of different computers which are all interconnected. As more machines are hooked up to the network, more resources are added to the overall cloud.
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floyd said:
I think what I was thinking of is computer cluster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster

I just don't know what a potential client is thinking of when they want "cloud server" or "cloud hosting."
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When I want to know what the customer thinks. I ask my wife who is into Quilting:D. Mostly she just states does the website work or not...

The only cp I know that has Native support for clustering is Interworx.

Most OS's support HA and have for years. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/tutorials/clustering/clustering.html. VMS was one of the oldest and best. Which is why it's not around anymore..
 
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